A liberal turns on his fellow unrealistic liberals

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The Los Angeles Times publishes an absolutely remarkable column written by died—in—the—wool liberal Sam Harris. His message is pinted and telling: his fellows liberals have become delusional and worse.

... liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world — specifically with what devout Muslims actually believe about the West, about paradise and about the ultimate ascendance of their faith.

On questions of national security, I am now as wary of my fellow liberals as I am of the religious demagogues on the Christian right.

This may seem like frank acquiescence to the charge that "liberals are soft on terrorism." It is, and they are. [....]

At its most extreme, liberal denial has found expression in a growing subculture of conspiracy theorists who believe that the atrocities of 9/11 were orchestrated by our own government. [....]

Such an astonishing eruption of masochistic unreason could well mark the decline of liberalism, if not the decline of Western civilization

The Los Angeles Times publishes an absolutely remarkable column written by died—in—the—wool liberal Sam Harris. His message is pinted and telling: his fellows liberals have become delusional and worse.

... liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world — specifically with what devout Muslims actually believe about the West, about paradise and about the ultimate ascendance of their faith.

On questions of national security, I am now as wary of my fellow liberals as I am of the religious demagogues on the Christian right.

This may seem like frank acquiescence to the charge that "liberals are soft on terrorism." It is, and they are. [....]

At its most extreme, liberal denial has found expression in a growing subculture of conspiracy theorists who believe that the atrocities of 9/11 were orchestrated by our own government. [....]

Such an astonishing eruption of masochistic unreason could well mark the decline of liberalism, if not the decline of Western civilization